Diplocaulobium minjemense (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes 1957 SECTION Goniobulbon
Plant and Flower Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name or Meaning The Minjem Diplocaulobium [A River In New Guinea]
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on tall trees in riverine forests at elevations around 180 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome giving rise to compressed, 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-ligulate, glabrous, coriaceous, subrigid leaf that blooms in the winter on a compresed, short, successively single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Dendrobium minjemense Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Dendrobium minjemense drawing close; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 as D aff minjaemense drawing/photo ok; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroidee Pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014 as Dendrobium minjemense photo fide;
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